Deanna Reed-Foster

Deanna Reed-Foster is an American actress born in Chicago. She first pursued music, singing with her high school chorus and competing in city and state contests, then took her first professional stage role in 1995. She performed in plays around Chicago and later traveled across the country and abroad, beginning work at the Black Ensemble Theatre in 2004. Her first feature film was Roll Bounce, directed by Malcom Lee, in 2005, and she won an Emmy in 2008 for narrating Fresh From Julianne's Garden: A Legacy In Bronze. After Meisner training at Gately Poole Acting Conservatory, she appeared in stage, television, and film, including a recurring role on Chicago Fire and Southside With You (2016). In 2017, the Joseph Jefferson Awards nominated her for best supporting actress for Even Longer and Farther Away, and she also worked with director Steve McQueen and played Laurence Fishburne's wife in Last Flag Flying (2017).